1 Corinthians 11:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For this cause ought the woman to have powerb on her head because of the angels. ”

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this cause ... - There is scarcely any passage in the Scriptures which has more exercised the ingenuity of commentators than this verse. The various attempts which have been made to explain i...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(9) For this cause ought the woman to have (c) power on [her] head because of the (10) angels. (9) The conclusion: women must be covered, to show by this external sign their subjection. (c) A cover...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 11:2-16 . Women must be Veiled in the Christian Assemblies. It is not clear whether this subject was discussed in the church letter. Paul begins, in a way that surprises us after hi...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

For this cause . On account of (as above) this. power . authority (App-172.), i.e. the sign of authority,. veil, which betokened subjection to her husband. Compare Genesis 24:65 . on . App-104....
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. For this cause ought the woman to have power (628) From that authority he draws an argument (629) in favor of outward decorum. “She is subject,” says he, “let her then wear a token of...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels - There are few portions in the sacred...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For this cause ought the woman to have power, &c.— Mr. Locke acknowledges, with a modesty which does him much honour, that he did not understand this text,—and many seem to have darkened it byt...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Power on her head - the kerc...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Disorders In Worship 2-16. (c) The Veiling of Women in Church 2. Now I praise you] This v. introduces the two following sections. The Apostle begins by praising them, perhaps echoing words from...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head. — The two clauses which compose this verse are, perhaps, the two most difficult passages in the New Testament, and, accordingly, have given...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 16 THE VEIL AT this point of the Epistle Paul passes from the topics regarding which the Corinthians had requested him to inform them, to make some remarks on the manner in which, as he h...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Covering the Head 1 Corinthians 11:2-10 No soul is complete in itself. The man is not complete apart from Christ, as the woman is not complete apart from man. As God is the head of the nature o...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Another Corinthian question concerned the position of woman and her true attitude in the exercise of divinely bestowed gifts. He declared that woman's true position is subservience to man. The nature...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. (2) Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. (3) But I would have yo...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE FEMALE HEAD-DRESS ‘Power on her head because of the angels.’ 1 Corinthians 11:10 The little section of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in which St. Paul deals with the question of t...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head ,.... The generality of interpreters, by power, understand the veil, or covering on the woman's head, as a sign of the man's power over her,...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels. Ver. 10. To have power ] That is, a veil, called in Hebrew Radid, of Radad, to bear rule. And indeed what was thi...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For this cause As well as for the other reasons above mentioned; the woman ought to have power on her head That is, a veil, as a token of her being under the power and subjection of the man: and...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter s 11 to 14 no longer consider the question of testimony or conduct as before the world, but rather the conduct, order, unity that is becoming in the Assembly, the body of Christ. Yet this is...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Directions Concerning Attire; Female Subjection. A. D. 57. 1 Be ye followers of me, even as I...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By power on her head is here to be understood (as some think) a covering on her head, in sign that she is under the power of her husband: the thing signified is here put for the sign, as the sign i...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Status of Men and Women in Ministry When Prophesying and Praying Is To Be Expressed In The Covering or Uncovering of the Head (11:2-16). This question is of great importance in the church, bec...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES [ 1 Corinthians 11:1 belongs to chap. 10, where see. Evans (in Speaker ), Stanley, and others divide this chapter at 1 Corinthians 11:16 , not 1 Corinthians 11:17 , making 1 Co...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Scofield Reference Notes

power Authority, that is, the sign of the husband's authority. angels That is, of the presence of the angels.
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 11:2 . Keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you. The apostle mentions these twice to the Thessalonians, and nearly in the same words. 2 Thessalonians 2:15 ; 2 Thessalonians...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of every woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. Christ our Head This important statement is the starting-p...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 11:1 Followers of me; rather, imitators of me; follow herein my example, as I follow Christ's. What Christ's example was, in that he too "pleased not himself,"...
1 Corinthians 11:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The apostle advances a further argument for the woman's veiling:
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 5:6 ; Genesis 20:16 ; Genesis 24:64 ; Genesis 24:65 ; Hebrews 1:14 ; Matthew 18:10
1 Corinthians 11:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

For this cause also a woman ought to be veiled in the public assemblies, because of the angels — Who attend there, and before whom they should be careful not to do anything indecent or irregular.

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Corinthians 11:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Corinthians 11:10 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 11:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 11:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Scofield Reference Notes

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Corinthians 11:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Corinthians 11:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Corinthians 11:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 11:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes